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Segment of Berlin Wall is now in National Museum

After seeing on facebook that the National Museum of the Philippines has FREE admission for the whole month of May, 2016, we chose spending our whole day inside the museum than watching TV, with the hot election in the mainstream. It is better to be in front of the historical artifacts than listening to some people for their political agenda.

Spoliarium by Juan Luna

Spoliariumby Juan Luna is the biggest painting that I ever seen,
in my 20 something years of existence. This painting is also one of the
superstars among other paintings, painted by prominent people in the country. We
arrived at the National Museum at around 11AM, so we had a perfect timing and
had a clean shot of the Spoliarium,
without too many people on the sides. More photos of the Art exhibit at the Old Senate Building? Continue Reading >>>

Every
time we felt tired during our visit, we sit on the couch or bench allotted for
visitors. There were open exhibit in three levels and each of the levels has a
lot to show, making us to spend more energy. Akala ko sa pag-ibig lang ako mabilis mapagod, pati rin pala sa pag-lalakad. After the Art exhibit, we proceeded to Museum of the Filipino people.

One
of the MUST SEE in National Museum of the Philippines – Museum of the Filipino People is a part of the world famous Berlin Wall.
This wall was brought here in the Philippines to showcase its historical value
to the Filipino people and of course to let us see the actual Berlin Wall.

I am standing by the wall, can you see how tall the Berlin Wall is?

Berlin Wall separated or cut the line between the Western and Eastern Bloc of Europe. It was built to contain the East German population on their side and prevent them from migrating. It was demolished to signal the start of the end of the Cold War and now this segment of historical wall was given by the German government to the Philippines.

This
piece of the Berlin Wall, originally located at the Potsdamer Platz(Berlin – Mitte). This was donated to the
City of Berlin by Sony Berlin.

This side of the
Berlin Wall is the outer side.

How to Get Here | National Museum of the Philippines is situated near
the Lapu-Lapu statue, in Luneta Park. What we did was, from Cubao, we took a ride in
LRT Line 2 and alighted in Recto. Crossed the footbridge to LRT Line 1 Doroteo
Jose Station, traveled and alighted in UN station. Then a 15 minutes walk to
the National Museum entrance.